most acquisitions get announced on day one and shipped a year later; we did it the other way around. @bendopfner and the Vesto team joined @tryramp five months ago. we waited to "make an announcement" until customers could use what we built together. for three years they’d been working on a problem every finance team knows too well: log into a handful of bank portals, export everything, stitch it together in a spreadsheet, and hope you can accurately model where your cash actually is. the average Ramp customer has 3+ bank accounts, some have hundreds spread across many institutions and geographies (and languages of various portals). now they can see it in Ramp, alongside the spend they already manage here, with connections to 12,000+ banks and a cash forecast across every account and entity. Ben spent three years earning the trust of Vesto’s customers. he thanked them first in his announcement and closed with “job’s not finished." now that they’re Ramp customers too, it’s on all of us to keep earning it. five months in, it feels like he’s been here for years. welcome to Ramp, Ben.

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